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Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll’s putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing “The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new.” There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters–extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be “curiouser and curiouser,” seemingly without moral or sense.

For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice’s new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the “regular course” in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel’s illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll’s instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story.

Language

english, spanish, others

Series

Alice in wonderland – book 1

Reading Format

paperback

Review

I found it a little tangled however it was very creative, I didn’t remember it to be so harsh in some things, because I did find some words in the narration that were surprising in a children book.

Phantasmagoria was truly interesting for me and pretty entertaining, the idea of having a ghost in your house that not only talk to you but explains how to haunt your house too.

A tangles story was pretty interesting in a way, since i’m very bad at math I found it almost senseless for me because I didn’t understood what problems needed to be solved or how to solve them, since supposedly they were math problems hidden in the narration.